Subject : The
Doom-and-Gloom Machine: “The die is cast!” - The Question, Now: “Where do we go from here?”

May Day2020

Grenoble,
France

Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

Monopoly
Capitalism is no fun; it requires the operations ofillegitimate dependent power pyramids to maintain
its rule over society. [For more discussion on the use of “dependent hierarchies”
(both legitimate and illegitimate), please see CEIMSA Bulletin N°257,N°286, N°300, and especially N°836.]

It
is clear by this time that ill-prepared authorities imposed a lockdown as a
delay tactic to compensate for the massive incompetence driven by the
neoliberal economic system that abuses all of us. Science was replaced by a
seat-of-the-pants ideology, and instead of taking the necessary precautions to
protect the most vulnerable people in society, we were all placed in protective
custody, locked up in our dwellings to postpone contagion, ostensibly in order
to free available hospital beds for the most needy
first. In this bizarre “one-size-fits-all” approach, we are now told by government
authorities that designated groups of people will be released from lockdown on
an experimental basis, beginning with young school children, unless or until a
large number of them show positive signs of coronavirus
infections, in which case they will be returned to lockdown, before another
group is selected for experimentation. All this, because the necessary
protective measures were not available at the beginning of this pandemic, and
vulnerable groups were not identified and protected before the virus ran its
natural course, creating widespread immunity. This error will be increasingly
costly to ordinary people, as unnecessary lockdowns begin to cause economic and
political havoc, as well as additional health issues.

So
much for the scientific method under late capitalism, where profit comes first!

Returning
to one of the interesting discussions in Fritjof
Capra’s book, The
Tao of Physics, we will look at the holistic view of the new physics, searching
beyond a linear cause-and-effect
relationship. One of the key concepts used in this systemic approach to
understanding natural phenomena is “the bootstrap hypothesis,” developed by the
University of Chicago theoretical physicist Geoffrey Chew (1924-2019). Capra
presents this theory as follows:

The bootstrap philosophy constitutes the
final rejection of the mechanistic world view in modern physics. Newton’s
universe was constructed from a set of basic entities with certain fundamental
properties, which had been created by God and thus were not amenable to further
analysis. In one way or another, this notion was implicit in all theories of natural
science until the bootstrap hypothesis stated explicitly that the world cannot
be understood as an assemblage of entities which cannot be analyzed further. In
the new world view, the universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated
events. None of the properties of any part of this web is fundamental; they all
follow from the properties of the other parts, and the overall consistency of
their mutual interrelations determines the structure of the entire web.

Thus, the bootstrap philosophy represents
the culmination of a view of nature that arose in quantum theory with the
realization of an essential and universal interrelationship, acquired its
dynamic content in relatively theory, and was formulated in terms of reaction
probabilities in S-matrix theory.* At the same time, this view of nature
came ever closer to the Eastern world view and is now in harmony with Eastern
thought, both in its general philosophyand in its specific picture of matter.

The bootstrap hypothesis
not only denies the existence of fundamental constituents of matter, but accepts
no fundamental entities whatsoever – no fundamental laws, equations or
principles – and thus abandons another ideal which has been an essential part
of natural science for hundreds of yeas. The notion of fundamental laws of
nature was derived from the belief in a divine lawgiver which was deeply rooted
in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. In the words of
Thomas Aquinas;

“There is a certain Eternal Law, to wit, Reason, existing in the
mind of God and governing the whole universe.”

This notion of an eternal, divine law of nature greatly influenced
Western philosophy and science. Descartes wrote about the ‘laws which God has
put into nature’, and Newton believed that the highest aim of his scientific
work was to give evidence of the ‘laws impressed upon nature by God’. To
discover the ultimate fundamental lows of nature remained the aim of natural scientists
for the three centuries following Newton.

In modern physics, a
very different attitude has now developed. Physicists have come to see that all
their theories of natural phenomena, including the ‘laws’ they describe, are
creations of the human mind; properties of our conceptual map of reality,
rather than of reality itself. This conceptual scheme is necessarily limited and
approximate,** as are all the scientific theories and
‘laws of nature’ it contains. All natural phenomena are ultimately
interconnected, and in order to explain any one of them we need to understand
all the others, which is obviously impossible. What makes science so successful
is the discovery that approximations are possible. If one is satisfied with an
approximate ‘understanding’ of nature, one can describe selected groups of
phenomena in this way, neglecting other phenomena which are less relevant. Thus
one can explain many phenomena in terms of a few, and consequently understand different
aspects of nature in an approximate way without having to understand everything
at once. This is the scientific method; all scientific theories and models are
approximations to the true nature of things, but the error involved in the approximations
is often small enough to make an approach meaningful. In particle physics, for
example, the gravitational interaction forces between particles are usually
ignored, as they are many orders of magnitude weaker than those of the other interactions.
Although the error caused by this omission is exceedingly small, it is clear
that the gravitational interactions will have to be included in future, more
accurate theories of particles.

Thus physicists
construct a sequence of partial and approximate theories, each of them being
more accurate than the previous one, but none of them representing a complete
and final account of natural phenomena. Like these theories, all the ‘laws of
nature’ they describe are mutable destined to be replace by more accurate laws when
the theories are improved. The incomplete character of a theory is usually reflected
in its arbitrary parameter, or ‘fundamental constants’, that is, in quantities
where numerical values are not explained by the theory, but have to be inserted
into it after they have been determined empirically. Quantum theory cannot
explain the value used for the mass of the electron, nor field theory the magnitude
of the electron’s charge, or relativity theory that of the speed of light. In
the classical view, these quantities were regarded as fundamental constants of
nature which did not require any further explanation. In the modern views,
their role of ‘fundamental constants’ is seen as temporary and reflecting the
limitations of the present theories. According to the bootstrap philosophy,
they should be explained, one by one, in the future theories as the accuracy
and scope of these theories increase. Thus the ideal situation should be approached, but it may never be reached
where the theory does not contain any unexplained ‘fundamental’ constants, and
where all its ‘laws’ follow from the requirement of overall self-consistency.

It is important to
realize, however, that even such an ideal theory must possess some unexplained features,
although not necessarily in the form of numerical constraints; As long as it is
a scientific theory, it will require the acceptance, without explanation, of
certain concepts which form the scientific language. To push the bootstrap idea
further would lead beyond science:

“In the broad sense, the bootstrap idea, although fascinating and
useful is unscientific…. Science, as we know it, requires a language based on
some unquestioned framework. Semantically, therefore, an attempt to explain all
concepts can hardly be called ‘scientific’.”[ G.F. Chew cited in fn 3, p.333.)

It
is evident that the complete ‘bootstrap’ view of nature, in which all phenomena
in the universe are uniquely determined by mutual self-consistency, comes very close
to the Eastern world view. An indivisible universe, in which all things and
events are interrelated, would hardly make sense unless it were self-consistent.
In a way, the requirement of self-consistency, which forms the basis of the bootstrap
hypothesis, and the unity and interrelation of all phenomena, which are so
strongly emphasized in Eastern mysticism, are just different aspects of the
same idea. The close connection is most clearly expressed in Taoism. For the
Taoist sages, all phenomena in the sold were part of the cosmic Way – the Tao
– and the laws followed by the Tao were not laid down by any divine
lawgiver, but were inherent in its nature.(pp.
302-305)

__________

*“The S matrix is a collection of probabilities for all possible
reactions involving hadrons.[A hadron
is a subatomic particle composed of two or more quarks.] S matrix derives its
name from the fact that one can imagine the whole assemblage of possible hadron reactions arranged in an infinite array of the kind mathematicians
call a matrix. The letter S is a remainder of the original name
‘scattering matrix’ which refers to collision – or ‘scattering’ – processes,
the majority of particle reactions.

“In practice, of
course, one is never interested in the entire collection of hadron
processes, but always in a few specific reactions. Therefore, one never deals
with the whole S matrix, but only with those of its parts, or ‘elements’, which
refer to the process under consideration. These are represented symbolically by
diagrams like … which picture… the simplest and most general particle
reactions: two particles, A and B, undergo a collision to emerge as two
different particles, C and D. More complicated processes involve a greater
number of particles. . . .” (Capra, pp.274-275)

**“The realm of rational knowledge is, of
course, the realm of science which measures and quantifies, classifies and
analyses. The limitations of any knowledge obtained by these methods have
become increasingly apparent in modern science, and in particular in modern
physics which has taught us, in the words of Werner Heisenberg, ‘that every
world or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.’

“For most of us it is
very difficult to be constantly aware of the limitations and of the relativity
of conceptual knowledge. Because our representation of reality is so much
easier to grasp than reality itself, we tend to confuse the two and to take our
concepts and symbols for reality. It is one of the main aims of Eastern
mysticism to rid us of this confusion. Zen Buddhists say that a finger is
needed to point at the moon, but that we should not trouble ourselves with the finger
once the moon is recognized . . . .

“In the West, the
semanticist Alfred Korzybski made exactly the same point with his powerful
slogan, ‘The map is not the territory.’”(Capra, pp.28-29)

The 23 + items below represent articles and essays that reflect the social-economic spiral we have now entered, which has effectively reduced our control over our own lives. Not unlike Dante's descent into Hell, we are meeting familiar figures along this journey, including would-be dictators who continue to solicit our support for their fantastic cures to all social evils; the angry rebels who remain ever ready to lead us over the cliff, to our own self-destruction; as well as the usual array of “successful” entrepreneurs, always eager to make profits from our gullibility until the last hour of their existence, or ours. The conflicts that abound in this inferno reflect the mutilated consciousness that we inherited from the ill-willed guardians of capitalist hegemony and their goon squads. The engineering toward Voluntary Servitude is near the point that would turn "their wishes" into "our commands." And on the Agenda of these tyrants is inscribed the slogan: "Over Population - Abandon all hope ye who enter here!”

Sincerely,

Francis
Feeley

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Professeurhonoraire
de l'Université Grenoble-AlpesAncienDirecteur de
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)The University of California-San Diego

Subject: [MCM] MUST-SEE update interview with Prof. Knut Wittkowski, who's been right all along, and MUST be heard again, right now

Here Prof. Knut Wittkowski revisits the COVID-19 crisis, and the catastrophic folly of the lockdowns—about which the position that he took in his first interview three weeks ago has now been vindicated,as he notes.

Please watch this to the end, and send it far and wide.

MCM

From John Kirby:

Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 5: In this highly-charged follow-up interview, Knut Wittkowski sayssays his initial claim has been vindicated: the lockdowns - always a dubious proposition for a respiratory virus - came too late in the U.S. and elsewhere, and were therefore even worse than useless. By turns emotional and darkly comic, Wittkowski ranges across all the essential topics of the crisis, and gives answers you are unlikely to see in the major media. Not to be missed.

For decades, Noam Chomsky has been a leading
intellectual troublemaker. His books and speeches have helped to explain how a
world run by corporations and billionaires has led to endless war and
catastrophic climate change. Now he is helping to explain how corporations and
billionaires are actually making the coronavirus
pandemic worse by savagely pursuing policies that benefit themselves at the
expense of everyone else. Labor Notes staff writer Chris Brooks interviewed professor Chomsky on Friday, April 10 to learn more about
how we got into this moment–and what it will take to get us out of it.

I
just find it intriguing that Bill Gates would be building not one, but seven
factories to produce what he believes will, one day, eventually be vaccines for
the coronavirus pandemic.

"Bill
Gates says he will plug money into building factories for seven promising coronavirus vaccine candidates, even though it will mean
wasting billions of dollars.

On Thursday's
episode of "The Daily Show," the Microsoft billionaire told
the host Trevor Noah that his philanthropic organization, the Gates Foundation,
could mobilize faster than governments to fight the coronavirus
outbreak.

"Because
our foundation has such deep expertise in infectious diseases, we've thought
about the epidemic, we did fund some things to be more prepared, like a vaccine
effort," Gates said. "Our early money can accelerate things."

Gates
said the top seven vaccine candidates would be picked, and then building
manufacturing capacity would be built for them. "Even though we'll end up
picking at most two of them, we're going to fund factories for all seven, just
so that we don't waste time in serially saying, 'OK, which vaccine works?' and
then building the factory," he said."

The World Health Organization lauded Sweden as a “model” for battling the coronavirus as countries lift lockdowns — after the nation controversially refused restrictions.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, said Wednesday there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, which has largely relied on citizens to self-regulate.
“I think there’s a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread,” Ryan told reporters. “Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Ryan noted that instead of lockdowns, the country has “put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long term care facilities.”
“What it has done differently is it has very much relied on its relationship with its citizenry and the ability and willingness of its citizens to implement self-distancing and self-regulate,” Ryan said. “In that sense, they have implemented public policy through that partnership with the population.”

Hundreds
of millions of adults and children are now either in quarantine in their homes,
or engaged in "essential" travel in the public sphere, while
maintaining an unnatural distance from one another, because they have been told
this is the best way to protect their individual and the public's health from a
deadly virus. But what are the consequences of the social isolation caused by
this mass social distancing experiment?

What
is Social Distancing and Social Isolation?

Social
distancing, also known physical distancing, is defined as a set of
non-pharmaceutical interventions taken to prevent the spread of presumably
communicable diseases by maintaining a physical distance between people and
reducing the frequency people come into close contact with each other.

Regardless
of whether or not social distancing is actually effective in preventing disease
transmi

ssion, it always results in some
degree of social isolation, defined as disengagement from social ties,
institutional connections, or community participation.

13
Studies Demonstrating Social Isolation Increases Mortality Risk:

There
is a growing body of scientific research demonstrating that social isolation
has significant adverse health impacts on both the psychological and
physiological health and well-being of individuals, as represented by the
following 13 studies which show significant increases in mortality.

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'Very worried':
Britain issues alert as possible new coronavirus
syndrome emerges in children

The coronavirus
has jam-packed more than 20,400 patients into New York City's hospitals.
Overwhelmed healthcare workers expected the emergency field hospital at Javits Convention Center to offer relief by taking on
COVID-19 patients. But after weeks of being open, the makeshift hospital is
still mostly empty. Here's why.

Subject: [MCM] On Tokyo and New York City, the lockdowns overall (and why it's time to END them), and the fact that ventilators KILL those with COVID-19

Keith Rushworth responded to my question, "What's up with that?"—i.e., the fact that NYC, under lockdown,has had 11,000 deaths (allegedly) due to COVID-19, while Tokyo, not under lockdown has had just 93.His response is so enlightening that I'm sharing it with you.

The other part of the equation is why NY is so bad. Their hospital admissions chart is almost a perfect Normal Distribution Curve, which seems to peak on around 4th April. Does look like the virus went through with nothing in its way!https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

YouTube has censored a viral video in which
two doctors criticized the logic of whether California’s stay-at-home coronavirus order is necessary.

The video, which had racked up over 5 million views, featured Dr.
Dan Erickson and Dr. ArtinMassihi,
co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, Calif.

In the clip, Erickson asserts that there is only a “0.03 chance of
dying from COVID in the state of California,” prompting him to ask, “Does that
necessitate sheltering in place? Does that necessitate shutting down medical
systems? Does that necessitate people being out of work?”

Erickson also asked why fatalities were being counted as COVID-19
deaths when other ailments were actually more to blame.

“When someone dies in this country right now, they’re not talking
about the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the stroke. They’re saying ‘Did
they die from COVID?'” Erickson said. “We’ve been to hundreds of autopsies. You
don’t talk about one thing, you talk about comorbidities.
ER doctors now [say] ‘It’s interesting when I’m writing about my death report, I’m being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?”

The video was deleted late last night for “violating YouTube’s
terms of service.”

[T]his
is going to have an impact that’s nothing like anything we have seen – not the
Great Financial Crisis, not the Great Depression, not even the two World Wars.
We are already going to be in an economic situation that is probably worse than
all of these in terms of the massive global destruction of livelihoods and
breaking of supply chains. So what do we do?

Here
is an explosive interview with Dr. Montagnier, who
quietly explains to his incredulous interrogators that COVID-19 is not a
natural virus that arose by chance out of that Chinese "wet market"
(the Official Story, foretold in the last shot of the Matt Damon/Gwyneth Paltrow flick Contagion). The bits of HIV that Dr. Montagner and others have detected in this new coronavirus had to have been deliberately inserted, in
a lab somewhere.

That's
the bad news, which so completely, and authoritatively, shatters the Official
Story that it had the program's trio of discussants freaking out (one of them
desperately seeking counter-claims on his cellphone).
The good news is that the coronavirus seems to be weakening,
its virulence abating, as it mutates through transmission—a claim that also shatters
the official story, which tells us that this pandemic will drag on, and
on, and

on, and that we'll
all to stay under house arrest, until every human being on Earth gets vaccinated.

And
there's more that the good doctor had to say (when his questioners
weren't interrupting him). Please watch, and send this far and wide.

FULL INTERVIEW of Medecine
Nobel Prize Luc Montagnier on French mainstream
channel CNEWS, April 17, 2020. Medecine Nobel Prize
Luc Montagnier gives his expert opinion on the origin
of the SARS-COVID2 virus. His main point is that the RNA sequences that are
common to the HIV retrovirus are short, but long enough to be actively coding:
he thinks that cannot be the result of a natural recombination, a lab must have
been involved. He excludes the biowarfare motive, and
thinks the virus comes from an attempt to create a vaccine against AIDS. He
also says there are political pressures not to communicate about this, probably
because all governements are involved in such
experiments. The good news is that the artificial virus is loosing
potency as it mutates, because Nature does not accept disharmony. This
underlines once again the dangers of these new DNA/RNA recombinant vaccines,
new technologies that can lead to absolute disasters for the human population.

Miles-long lines are forming at food banks across
the US with increased demands of between 100 to 250 percent. The USDA reports
that food-stamp enrollment is up 40 percent since March. Even before the
COVID-19 pandemic, 37 million Americans were considered food insecure. Joel
Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, shares his expertise.

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Post-Covid-19: the world is facing a hunger pandemic
and other disasters of biblical proportions

Recently
headlines were made when 66 self-described "leaders" of the 1960's
"new left" group SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) published an
open letter from "the Old New Left to the New New
Left." It's purpose was
to endorse Joe Biden and urging all of us who "yearn for a more
just and equal social order" to "face facts" and "work
hard" campaigning for Biden and the Corporate Liberal National Democratic
Party. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/

The
signatories were aiming their barbs at "New New Left"
represented by DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), which has recently risen
to prominence and gained tens of thousands of members, promoting Bernie and
AOC, and succeeded in placing democratic socialism back on the agenda for the
first time in generations and giving a socialist political home to the rising
anti-capitalist movement that began with Occupy in 2011. DSA has sound
socialist principles and will be around after the November election (if it
takes place!)

As a very
old, pre-SDS, New Leftist and a present member of DSA, I would like to dip
my oar into this teacup tempest about CAMPAIGNING for Biden and the Dems, the "soft" or "liberal" face of
our corrupt, conservative, racist, imperialist, billionaire-run duopoly.

Please
note: this is not about VOTING for the lesser of two evils, which our corrupt
system inevitably obliges us to do. This is about actually ENDORSING the Dems, who in my time brought us the the
Red Scare, the Loyalty Oath, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and
years of nuclear terror. The very idea of giving money and ringing doorbells
for the DNC (remember Chicago 1968?) turns my stomach.

Obviously,
we're all going to vote AGAINST against Trump, so
this is a non-issue. But as far as campaigning is concerned, it must be FOR our
goals: the Green New Deal, Free College, No Voter Suppression, Medicare for all, saving the Post office and not for a
corrupt Party and candidate that is against these goals and always has
been.

What's
ridiculous about all this is the lockstep conformity with which the so-called
"Left" is asked to sign on to campaigns to people who themselves
can't be bothered to oppose Trump – all in the name of "we gotta oppose Trump." Excuse me, but I do read the news
and have not yet heard anything anti-Trump coming out of the hypocritical mouth
of Joe Biden, only criticism of Democrats to his left. Meanwhile, the Democrats
in the House and Senate, are busy capitulating TO
Trump, giving billions to save the banks and corporations and a symbolic
pittance to the frontline workers, the poor and unemployed.

To the
extent that Bernie Sanders represented a movement, he led the progressive
campaign for social justice that "Our
Revolution" ought to be mobilising its huge
bankroll, mailing list and organizers to promote. By campaigning for these
issues we will most effectively oppose Trump. As far as the election is
concern, those who listen to us will vote against him, and vote for the latest
worn-out party hack, holding their noses.

Personal
note.
In the late Fifties I was a student activist, in YPSL, the Young People's
Socialist League (the ancestor of DSA) along with Bernie Sanders. I
also worked with Columbia CORE and the Independent Committee Against
the War in Vietnam and later, at first reluctantly, in SDS. Indeed, when SDS
first appeared at Columbia and Dave Gilbert asked me whether we (the
Independent Committee at CU) ought to join it, I said I was suspicious of
the new group, given that SDS's sponsoring organisation
(LID) had red-baited our YPSL campus socialist group at Yale, where I was an
undergrad, and came with a lot of Cold War baggage. Our 1950's New Left
represented a break with the Old Left that apologised
for the Stalinist system, which had crushed the Hungarian soviets in 1956.

But the
SDS new left had no sense of history, and so I was not surprised (albeit
horrified) when after 1968 the self-appointed "leaders" of SDS
switched Cold War sides and joined Mao's China which was conniving with Nixon
to crush the Vietnamese rebellion.

History
is important, and I attach a somewhat overlong but very accurate article on
this point by my contemporary, the socialist historian Paul Le Blanc from New
Politics magazine (which I have been writing for since the 60's). In
it, Paul demolishes the historical analogies about 1919 and 1968, which in
fact demonstrate the exact opposite conclusions of what the today's opportunist
66 repentant SDSers are arguing for. His points
are very instructive and worth considering.

Alex Salmond,
a friend of Amb. Craig Murray,
was First Minister of Scotland and leader of the pro-Independence Scottish
National Party. When the party narrowly lost the independence referendum in
2014, Salmond stepped down and his deputy, Nicola
Sturgeon, became, and remains, First Minister.

Salmond was thought to be considering a political comeback.
Then came several sexual allegations against him, which Amb. Murray publicly described as false. Murray
uses the word “fit-up”, British slang meaning to incriminate someone on
false charges.

Alex Salmond
was tried and a majority female jury found him innocent of all charges

Murray believes that Sturgeon and
associates are determined that nobody should find out what really happened.
There has been a media campaign implying Salmond is
really guilty. Murray reports that there has also been a police campaign
of intimidation against anyone, even ordinary folk making a Facebook
post, who implies the charges were contrived. The chief prosecutor and his key
staff are all Sturgeon appointees, as is the police chief.

Subject: [MCM] Pentagon/CIA/Silicon Valley have
a PLAN to turn America into a living hell straight out of TERMINATOR
(MUST-WATCH, MUST-READ)

Here's
Whitney Webb on "The Jimmy Dore Show," reporting on the plan, drawn
up last May, to surpass China in AI, by radically transforming the US economy,
society and culture. Just as they used the threat of
"terrorism" after 9/11, then the threat of more "mass
shootings" after Sandy Hook and during all its sequels, our overlords are
now exploiting the coronavirus crisis to
eliminate what they see as the "obstacles" to realizing their
dystopian ideal of total electronic dominance: privacy laws, cash, in-person
medical appointments, car ownership and (of course) human labor, just
to name a few of what they see as the obstructive "legacies" in
American life—"legacies" to be wiped out, ostensibly to save us all
from the coronavirus, but actually not just to
emulate, but outdo China at the subjugation of the masses (a/k/a the
rest of us).

Here's
a detailed article about the plan, drafted by the National Security Commission
on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), the US military/CIA/Big Tech cabal that,
seeing human beings as "biohazards," is working now to realize
that dream of moving all our lives online, while most of us are following
orders, huddling in our homes, completely misinformed and brilliantly
distracted by "our free press" and the entertainment complex:

Is the growth of China and Russia as the world's
dominant economic power worrying? Or should we applaud a break from US global
dominance? George Galloway, RanaMitter
and Stephen King debate the new world order.

Many of the country’s health professionals, fighting
COVID-19 on the front lines, are burdened with massive student loan debt. The
issue holds back the lives of those willing to put their health at risk for the
health of others. It may have also left much of the country underprepared as we
face a shortage of nurses and doctors. The high cost of medical school is also
pushing many to simply abandon their dreams of becoming a doctor or nurse
altogether. This week guest host FaranFronczak sits down with Ameshia
Cross of Watching the Hawks to discuss the latest.

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How the National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Push AI-Driven Mass Surveillance

A
short history of efforts to use anitmalarial drugs
for unrelated illnesses.The author teaches history at
August University in Georgia and has published on the history of science,
empire, and medicine.

"The
well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of
doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID-19." This
story is part of a global journalism collaboration marking the 50th anniversary
of Earth Day.

"By
and large, the world's most powerful and most expensive military establishment
is not proving terribly relevant." The author is a professor emeritus of
history and international relations at Boston University.

A historically informed analysis of
President Trump's strong support among white evangelicals. The author
teaches history at Stetson University and is a recent past president of the
William James Society.

A
new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes aim at the supposed hypocrisy
of the green movement is “dangerous, misleading and destructive” and should be
removed from public viewing, according to an assortment of climate scientists
and environmental campaigners.

The
film, Planet
of the Humans, was released on the eve of Earth Day last week by its
producer, Michael Moore, the baseball cap-wearing documentarian known for
Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling
for Columbine. Describing itself as a “full-frontal assault on our sacred
cows”, the film argues that electric cars and solar energy are unreliable and
rely upon fossil fuels to function. It also attacks figures including Al Gore
for bolstering corporations that push flawed technologies over real solutions
to the climate crisis.

From: Mark Crispin MillerSent: Saturday, April 27, 2020 Subject: [MCM] Why do so many
"left" outlets support the new police state taking shape to
"save" us from the new coronavirus?

Here the excellent Catte
Black raises a key question: Why is so much of "the left"
press standing with the New York Times and CNN, in favor of
the new police state taking shape to "save" us all from the coronavirus? I posed this question in my recent piece
about Consortium News' shocking editorial that fiercely seconded the UN
Secretary-General's decrial of the "wild conspiracy theories" now
"infecting the Internet"—"theories" that

are actually all facts that everybody needs to know.

Here's a pertinent and very helpful comment by Mike Champine, on Facebook.

(He doesn't mention Consortium News, although he could, and should.)

I'm reviewing all my once-cherished
"leftist" sources to see which ones are still worth reading and
which deserve to be discarded. Over the last couple weeks

13.and all my clear-thinking friends for exposing the Covid lies and propaganda rather than being devoured
and swallowed by it like so many of our old friends.

Thank you all.

I don't think it's improper, or irrational, to
suggest that those "left" outlets standing up for the new medical
police state may be linked, either through their funding or because of
agents in their ranks, to higher powers—like, say, the CIA.

It
should be obvious by now to anyone that the covid19 pandemic, whatever its
origins, is being used to fast forward a “new normal” world of unparalleled
government power, surveillance and curtailment of individual liberty.

We
are looking already at:

·Compulsory
DNRs for some elderly.

·Biometric
chips or bracelets to monitor whether or not you have permission to be outside
your home or engage in work

·Drone
surveillance as normal.

·Apps
on your phone that can detect any breach of the self-isolation policy.

·Huge
new police powers of arrest and detention for anyone suspected of carrying the
virus.

·Suspension
of elections for indefinite periods at government discretion.

And
this is only the starter course. We can be pretty sure they are currently just
easing us in. The real stuff will be rolling along in the next months or maybe
years (depending on how quickly they feel able to get this on).

This
is the fabric of nightmare. A worst-case horror story that is the absolute
quintessence of everything the alt-media is supposed to oppose.

Surely,
you would think, any self-respecting alt-media person would be opposing this
with everything they have while they still have a voice.

Well,
some of us are of course. And we’re going to be posting links to other sites
currently doing great work challenging this rollout.

But,
weeks into this crisis, there are some very prominent voices still refusing to
either question the official narrative of the pandemic or unequivocally condemn
the fast dawn of the “new normal” Brave New World.

We’ve
held off from confronting this for a while now. We figured people needed time
to adjust or wake up to the reality of what was happening. It’s shocking after
all, and deeply disorienting, and different individuals need different amounts
of time to get their bearings when something that shakes their worldview comes
along.

But
adjustment time is long over by now.

Let’s
also be clear, we’re not condemning people for simply disagreeing with us. We
expect disagreement on some issues. It’s a source of strength for all of us.

But
this is not about relatively minor differences of opinion or interpretation.

This
is sophisticated analysts, with resources and experience, failing to condemn,
and even supporting, what amounts to de facto international martial law.

This
is Labour activists who mere weeks ago were calling
Boris Johnson a murderer and psychopath, now cheering as he is handed total
control of their lives and their children’s lives.

This
is respected journalists, commentators and academics who loudly condemned the
cynical lies about WMDs or ‘chemical attacks’ in Douma,
the fake videos and fake White Helmets, suddenly and uncritically accepting the
veracity of every government virus narrative, every unsourced
video and media meme that has #covid19 as a hashtag.

This
is people who have campaigned against the Patriot Act
for 19 years, signing off on the new US anti-covid19 legislation without a
murmur; who know that governments always abuse their powers, thinking they
somehow just won’t abuse these.

This
is people who know about Guantanamo and who have seen Julian Assange humiliated and abused, somehow thinking the people
who did these things won’t use the new post-covid
police state to do them even more.

What’s in a
name? Everything. Find out about the latest attempt to
package the Orwellian total police state surveillance grid as something
wonderful and wholesome—and why you should never, ever say “contact tracing”—in
this week’s edition of #PropagandaWatch.

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Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: These "are the
good times — compared to what's coming next"

Sent: Monday, April
27, 2020Subject: TR: [MCM] Two ER doctors lucidly DESTROY the rationale for
"sheltering in place," and for requiring everybody to wear masks and
gloves. (MUST-WATCH VIDEO)

Here's
the video of an urgent press briefing, held on April 22, by two ER doctors in
Kern County, California. Based on their front-line experience dealing with
COVID-19 patients, and, between them, some 40 years of
medical practice, as well as their clear expertise in immunology and
microbiology, they lucidly and soberly destroy the terroristic
rationale for "sheltering in place" by healthy people, and ordering
everyone to creep around wearing masks and gloves.

Their
mastery of the data in Kern County, the "secondary" consequences of
the COVID-19 panic (child molestation, spousal abuse, alcoholism and suicide
have all spiked in a nation under house arrest, while people sick with
other illnesses aren't getting proper treatment, out of fear), and the
fundamentals of what Dr. Erickson called "Immunology 101," is vastly
more impressive, and convincing, than the speculative
fear-mongering of Dr. Fauci (and his owner, Bill
Gates.

Also
worth noting is the authoritarian uneasiness of the reporters. We can
almost hear their heads exploding, as the doctors calmly shattered
the abstract and ruinous "models" from the NIH and WHO—oracles that
those reporters just could not believe might be mistaken, as their feeble challenges made clear. "How could
you be right and all those other doctors be so wrong?? Doesn't the
government have the same data you have??" Such questions—identical to
those that Dr. Montagner was pelted with in that
recent interview on French TV—tell us that the bald credulity of "our free
press" throughout the West, their abject acceptance of the state's Official
Story, is a far greater danger to "the general welfare" than
COVID-19.

This
is it, enough is enough. What those of us who
study government could smell from the beginning is now being confirmed by ALL
THE DATA, even from those entities who made it their business to terrify
us.

Watch
this entire press conference from actual frontline doctors at a major
California facility. You will hear definitive and irrefutable information,
clearly presented, about the real prevalence and death rate of Covid 19.

You
will hear a devastating critique of quarantining the healthy. You will
hear the recommendation to wear masks and gloves outside of acute
facilities utterly eviscerated.

You
will relearn what we all once knew—that Lysoling your
home to death, and staying indoors and out of the world, DESTROYS YOUR ESSENTIAL
FLORA, your basic immunity. You will hear how the virus has spread IN
SPITE OF CONTAINMENT, arriving with your delivery of plastic water bottles from
Costco.

You
will see, as though a veil had parted, the arbitrary nature of the shutdown,
where Walmarts can accept customers (and increase the
prevalence of infection—and immunity) and a small pizza parlor or coffee shop,
or school, or church, cannot

No
more nonsense. No matter how committed you may have been, prior to this
moment, to accepting the Trump/Fauci dictates, it's now time to LET IT GO.

Every
moment you remain in fear, you stay susceptible to what is coming, what has
already arrived—and what we have now learned from FOIA’d
documents has been planned eagerly for years: the reorganization of the global
economy and civic life around the principles of a Fourth Industrial Revolution,
featuring authoritarian surveillance states modeled after China’s. We
will need clear heads to have any hope of understanding what is going on.

SNAP
OUT OF IT!

DEMAND
THAT THE SCHOOLS BE RE-OPENED NOW.

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r.

Organizer:
Domestic Workers Make All Work Possible, But the Coronavirus Relief Bill Discounts Them

We
hope it will be read widely during the coming month by workers worldwide.
Please help us circulate it.

One
Big Union!

Monty
Kroopkin, branch secretary

IWW
Local 13, San Diego GMB

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From: Fred LonidierSent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Subject: Hear Fred Glass talk on the history of May Day, the Red Holiday

Folks: I'm giving
a day-before-May Day talk on the history of the holiday known as International
Workers Day in most places around the world, but not here. The talk is
sponsored by East Bay DSA. Yes, a zoom presentation. The good news
is I've got a slide show to accompany the talk, so you don't have to look at me
reading for half an hour, and if you have ever wondered about the hidden
history of this holiday, or you are now wondering because I brought it up, tune
on in. Click here for more info.

Sent: Monday, April
28, 2020Subject: [MCM] Where did this virus come
from? Labs worldwide have been weaponizing viruses
for decades.

If
COVID-19 was engineered deliberately—and there's no rational grounds for
laughing off Dr. Luc Montagner's finding
that it was—then we must face the chilling likelihood that it,
or something like it, can be deployed at any time, to re-terrorize
the edgy masses, and "prove" that it was "too
soon" to re-open the economy.

Terror
makes people stupid, and therefore incapable of wondering if that recurrence
might not be a natural "second wave," but a deliberate means of
driving us all back into their homes, desperate for instructions (orders)
from on high—and for that all-important vaccination.

MCM

Did
this virus come from a lab? Maybe not — but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race

Dangerous
pathogens are captured in the wild and made deadlier in government biowarfare labs. Did that happen here?

There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not
entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild are
sometimes studied in labs — and sometimes made more dangerous. That
possibility, and other plausible scenarios, have been incorrectly dismissed in
remarks by some scientists and government
officials, and in the coverage of most major media outlets.

Regardless of the source of this pandemic, there is considerable
documentation that a global biological arms race going on outside of public
view could produce even more deadly pandemics in the future.

While much of the media and political establishment have
minimized the threat from such lab work, some hawks on the American right like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have singled out Chinese biodefense
researchers as uniquely dangerous.

The current dynamics of the biological arms race have been
driven by U.S. government decisions that extend back decades. In December 2009,
Reuters reported that the
Obama administration was refusing even to negotiate the possible monitoring of
biological

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"The World After Coronavirus: The Future of Neoliberalism”
- Part 1 & Part 2

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis
of unprecedented scale, with aftershocks that will be felt in virtually every
aspect of life for years or decades to come. The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at
the Pardee School of Global Studies has launched a
new video series called "The World After Coronavirus,"
in which we ask leading experts and practitioners from Boston University and
across the world to explore the challenges and opportunities we will face in
our post-coronavirus future. The series is hosted by
Prof. AdilNajam, the
Inaugural Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies
and former Director of the Pardee Center. In this
episode (the first of a two-part conversation) Dean Najam
speaks with Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, about the future of neoliberalism
after COVID-19.

This is an important post of what is going on in the background.
As the public psyche is inundated with fear and "pandemic like a world
war" metaphors/language, Western governments are waging a far different
war. One that is not making the headlines. It is that
of a currency war for global dominance as we enter the age of global
digitalization.

Again - this is not an anti-China sentiment post. This is NOT a
post to meant to incite hatred or demonize the Chinese
Government. This is about the GLOBAL roll out of digital currency and blockchain. (see April 19 2020
post)

April 25, 2020: "For two days in a row last week, amid coronavirus-related market meltdowns, a group of stocks on
China’s main exchange moved so significantly that they triggered automatic
circuit-breakers designed to halt trading. But trading was suspended not
because the stocks plummeted. It was because they soared.

The explosive rally of digital currency-related stocks followed
news that after several years of anticipation, China’s government released a
timeline for rolling out its new digital currency in four cities.

In the next month, government workers in these cities will use a
smartphone application to receive at least a portion
of their paychecks in the form of a digital payment, marking a milestone on the
path toward the world’s first digital currency system by a major central bank.

To some experts, the digital currency could represent a serious
threat to an American asset that has reigned unchallenged for decades: the U.S.
dollar.

U.S. dollars reign supreme in the global economy. Nearly 90
percent of international transactions in 2019 were in U.S. dollars, and about
60 percent of all foreign exchange reserves in the world are in U.S. dollars,
compared with the Chinese yuan, which makes up only 2
percent of global payments and reserves.

The dominance gives Washington enormous power — even in issues
that have little to do with finance. Because a linchpin of the global financial
system is in New York, where dollar-based payment systems process trillions in
transactions, the U.S. government has global muscle in enforcing sanctions...

Domestically, the dollar has been a vital asset to Americans,
too, especially in times of crisis. As demand for U.S. dollars has increased
during the current coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has
been able to borrow at relatively low interest rates, helping to finance its
rescue.

“This is an important advantage for the U.S. in responding
quickly to a crisis that policymakers in some other major economies
lack,"...

July 2019: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:
“This is indeed a national security issue”

To preserve the dollar’s status, analysts have been warning
recently that the United States cannot afford to let China get ahead on cryptocurrency.

Tim Morrison, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who served
as a special assistant to President Donald Trump, told VOA that he believes the
prospect of Beijing “dominating this emerging financial technology should be
alarming.”

In the United States, digital currencies are still in the
planning stages. Facebook announced last summer a
global digital currency called Libra, but it is still trying to win approval
from regulators.

Earlier in April, U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would
authorize the Federal Reserve to create “Digital Dollar Account Wallets"
called “FedAccounts” to distribute stimulus checks to
business and citizens...

"A China victory in the digital currency race would have
profound negative effects for the U.S., and Western
capitalism generally,” he said.

Casey said even with a head start, it is still a long shot for
China to win the battle. But he said, "If the U.S. doesn’t catch up soon,
it’s going to lose.”...

Although it is impossible to predict whether or when the dollar
will be dethroned, an opinion piece reprinted by China's Commerce Ministry on
its official website six years ago, when China began studying the development
of a state digital currency, may offer a clue: "RMB will replace USD in
the next 15 years," the site said.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF), in its report published on Jan.
22, 2020, concluded that central banks across the world have been waking up to
the idea of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies) now more than ever before.

The WEF gathered representatives from more than 40 central banks
and other financial institutions to create the CBDC Policy-Maker Toolkit. So
far, the National Bank of Cambodia, Central Bank of Uruguay, Bank of Thailand,
People’s Bank of China, and Eastern Caribbean Central Bank have agreed to use
the toolkit to draw up plans for their own potential CBDC in the future.

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The implication of digitalization, AI and blockchain
for citizens - and for humanity - is more than dire. And we are currently being
conditioned for its acceptance and implementation.

At present moment Chile & other countries are looking at
digital immunity passports as the sole means to regain your revoked freedoms.
This is nothing less than coercion.

The irony: the passport is the conduit/ the foray into 4IR blockchain. Block & Chain.Linking behaviour to benefits.

Freedom - in exchange for perpetual slavery
and compliance.

Emulating the digital immunity passport, a digital health
passport will be the only means to access health services - a digital, woke
coercion.